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"Bernard Peek" <bernard@shrdlu.com> wrote in message
news:vGCR7oBzD5Y6EwlW@shrdlu.com...
> In article <HDGS5767CD46C@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk>, Andrew Hodgson
> <andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk> writes
> >Hi.
> >
> >Is there a way of getting a small 5 user nt small business bundle
that
> >may include stuff like Exchange, and how much is this likely to cost?
>
> Microsoft have a Small Business Server which includes a version
Exchange
> Server, SQL Server and Windows 2000 server. It will do everything you
> want. I'd recommend it provided you don't ever expect to expand the
> network to multiple servers or sites.
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and the cost, depending on where you get it from (probably cheapest to
buy it with the server hardware)... in the catalogue in front of me,
backoffice server 2000 (windows 2000 server, sql server 2000, exchange
2000 and some other stuff) with 5 client licenses is GBP3,249...

and backoffice 4.5 (nt 4.0 server, sql server 7, exchange 5.5 and a
bunch of other stuff) with 5 client licenses is GBP2,429...

if you're starting from scratch, i'd say it's well worth going for 2000
rather than going to the additional effort of deploying the old version,
which will probably make your life harder in future...

more info on backoffice: http://www.microsoft.com/backofficeserver/

if that's way out of the price range, then you can do something usable
with workstation, but stuff like home directories and passwords is a
_lot_ more effort... and you'll then need to buy separate (although
probably much cheaper) software for email services, databases etc

michael